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Crystal Lewis
I am an education researcher with over ten years’ experience in project coordination and supervision, as well as data management, analysis, and reporting. I am happiest working at the intersection of K-12 education research and data management planning, helping researchers and practitioners obtain insights that improve student outcomes through harmonized, reliable, and documented data. I am also passionate about helping others organize their data and reporting through reproducible workflows.
Education
Master of Public Policy
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
2011
Professional Experience
Data Management Consultant
Freelance
N/A
Current - 2022
- Providing research data management consulting, training, and data wrangling services to improve organizational workflows.
Lead Data Scientist
Streamline Data Science
Remote
2022 - 2021
- Built example client facing crm dashboard in R flexdashboard to be used to publicize services. Currently featured on Streamline’s website.
- Ingested data sources to build an internal metric tracking R flexdashboard that is automated through Google Cloud Platform to update daily.
- Built google trends R flexdashboard (https://gtrends-school.streamlinedatascience.io/) to show capabilities of automatic updating data.
Director, Data Strategy
Missouri Prevention Science Institute
Remote
2021 - 2019
- Strategized data management plans for over ten actively funded projects and oversee their implementation.
- Merged, cleaned, manipulated, queried, validated, and documented data collected from school districts, state education agencies, surveys, assessments, and observations using R.
- Built reports, dashboards, and visualizations for dissemination of data.
Director, Research Implementation
Missouri Prevention Science Institute
University of Missouri
2019 - 2016
- Supervised successful completion of data collection activities for six federally funded randomized controlled trial studies and two county funded projects.
- Delivered quarterly trainings to staff on data collection methods.
- Designed Qualtrics surveys and Access tracking databases.
Research Associate
Missouri Prevention Science Institute
University of Missouri
2016 - 2013
- Coordinated two Institute of Education Sciences funded randomized controlled trial studies.
- Collected data in schools through classroom observations, surveys, and assessments.
Evaluation and Outcomes Manager
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri
Saint Louis, MO
2013 - 2011
- Oversaw the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data relating to performance management, outcomes, and customer satisfaction.
Research Assistant
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
University of Minnesota
2011 - 2010
- Evaluated the effectiveness of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office truancy intervention program using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Graduate Assistant
Hennepin-University Partnership
University of Minnesota
2010 - 2009
- Connected County officials with University faculty to develop effective partnerships to improve the community.
Publications
In-school and out-of-school suspension: Behavioral and psychological outcomes in a predominately Black sample of middle school students
School Psychology Review
N/A
2021
- Authored with Dan Cohen, Francis Huang, Colleen Eddy, Caroline Hodgson.
Motivational interviewing with at-risk students (MARS) mentoring program: Addressing the unique mental health needs of students in alternative school placements
School Psychology Review
N/A
2020
- Authored with Lauren Henry, Wendy Reinke, Keith Herman, Aaron Thompson.
Presentations
Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research Series
Missouri Prevention Science Institute
N/A
2021
- A series of workshops on topics concerning the implementation of a research study data management plan. https://cghlewis.github.io/mpsi-data-training/
Cleaning Messy Data in R
R-Ladies St. Louis Meetup
N/A
2019
- Two hour workshop on cleaning data using examples from the field of education.
Introduction to R
LaunchCode
N/A
2019
- Guest lecture for CoderGirl Data Analysis track.
Made with the R packages pagedown and datadrivencv.
The source code is available github.com/Cghlewis/resume.
Last updated on 2022-05-09.